They're plans are exactly what the Red Hat source said...they're working
toward getting their code approved, for inclusion, by Linus Torvalds.
Not much winds up in a distribution level kernel unless it's already been
approved by Linus.
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Toralf Lund wrote:
> What exactly is your plans on integration of XFS with the official kernel
> sources
> and/or the major Linux dists? I'm a bit concerned about the following:
>
>
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45497
> >
> > --- shadow/45497 Fri Jun 22 05:35:09 2001
> > +++ shadow/45497.tmp.19362 Fri Jun 22 05:50:24 2001
> > @@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
> > Version: 7.1
> > Platform: i386
> > OS/Version: Linux
> > -Status: NEW
> > -Resolution:
> > +Status: RESOLVED
> > +Resolution: NOTABUG
> > Severity: enhancement
> > Priority: normal
> > Component: kernel
> > @@ -34,3 +34,12 @@
> > Also note that there are certain issues related to installing kernel RPMs
> > from SGI on a Red Hat 7.1 system, such as the fact that devfsd from Red Hat
> > is not quite compatible with the SGI kernel.
> > +
> > +------- Additional comments from arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx 2001-06-22 05:50:43
> > -------
> > +XFS is not a candidate for 7.1 kernels unless it gets merged into Linus'
> > +2.4 tree (their patch touches a lot of core code, and they add syscalls
> > +which is something we only do when Linus approves them)
> > +
> > +
> > +Also, please take bugs against the SGI kernel to SGI not us, as they
> > changed
> > +several things we put in explicitly in order not to break things.
> >
> > Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional
> > comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report.
>
> We're currently using XFS on a 180Gb RAID volume, by the way, and everything
> looks
> good so far.
>
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